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 Hahahahaha. So I was invited to speak at a crypto-tangential conference. It’s about “parallel society”

And I need an Eth address to get my flights reimbursed 
https://m.primal.net/LfQo.jpg 
 What in the world? Who in the world uses ETH for day-to-day transactions?! 
 It’s $2k for a load of flights. First time I’ve used ethereum in 6 years 😮 
 Ethereum has smart contracts don’t you know 😂 
 And you'll immediately be swapping the ETH to real money, i.e. Bitcoin? 
 Don't do it! Use this guys suggestion... (well, maybe vet the site a bit more in case it is a scam first I guess and consider the fees too 🤷‍♂️)

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 Yes, watch out for the fees. But worked for me three times now. Some VPS providers only accept Monero. 
 Tell those clowns to figure out how to swap to Bitcoin themselves, why put the burden and cost on you?
 
 Ethirum is a scam blockchain platform made by scammers for scammers 😉 
 Lol rootstock then? Best I can do! 
 Crypto anarchists, clearly 
 Lol 
 Total BS, glad you can laugh about it 
 scamers 🤣  
 Speaking of scammers…
You’re following a fake @CARLA 


https://m.primal.net/Ljxd.jpg 
 🙏 
 Heavy bags breed foolishness 
 I will just say I always take 💩 coins when asked to for payment.  Give me an address 

Me - Goes to exchange, generates 💩 coin address, sends to 💩 coiner.  

Deposit comes and turns into BTC, I do often require a 5% inconvenience fee to accept their shit coin though, to cover fees. 

To me this is great it causes a buy on BTC and a sell on the 💩 coin of choice.  
 5% inconvenience fee is the way… and if you go, your entire presentation should be entirely about exposing the organizers lack of bitcoin with the goal of max embarrassment. 
 I keep a shitcoin wallet on me for just such occasions.  During the last bull market people often wanted to send me various shitcoins so I downloaded trust wallet.  Of course all that shit was immediately exchanged for Bitcoin.   
 Smart 
 receive the Eth on aqua wallet and flip it to BTC like a wizard  
 How? I don’t think i can receive native ETH. It’s only ETH USDT 
 They have a shitcoin to dump 
 Hard pass 
 Yep... unfortunately there seems to be huge overlap on the parallel societies and eth/crapto crowd. So much shitcoining going on in these otherwise good circles 😟

I kind of understand the historical reasons behind this, when bitcoin was heavily tied to the base chain and the early experimenters needed an everyday medium of exchange.

I hope they come around now that L2s are usable in practice. 
 What was your answer? That's the real question